Pollution is killing the world; a strong statement, but true. Certain levels of pollution are considered acceptable by many, such as vehicle exhaust fumes, but large levels of pollution must be controlled.

Monica S Mcfeeters's insight:

This could be very bad news for corporations heading to China to avoid the tight environmental standards in other countries. Death Sentences aren't given to corporate citizens....They are given to those with not only corporate purse strings but real citizens with hearts that manage and fill those purses. Those that own and boards that manage those corporations would be personally held accountable for serious environmental abuses.

Despite Arecibo, Puerto Rico's natural beauty, biodiversity and the economic benefits from tourism, Arecibo is at risk. A private waste management company wants to build a trash incinerator there that would burn 2100 tons of waste per day. Trash burning incinerators not only produce greenhouse gas emissions but also toxins such as lead that affect human health. And just like every other government action or social policy in Puerto Rico today, the roots of this proposal can be traced back to the austerity crisis.

A province in Pakistan has planted a billion trees in just two years as part of an effort to restore forests wiped out by decades of felling and natural disasters such as floods. Cricket-star turned politician Imran Khan, who heads the political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), launched the green mission in Khyber Pakhtunkhaw in the north-west of the country. The project ? dubbed Billion Tree Tsunami ? aims to slow down the effects of global warming in Pakistan which ranks in the Top 10 in a list of countries most likely to be affected by the phenomenon.

The Justice Department waded into Georgia’s long-running dispute with Florida on Tuesday with a legal filing that suggested imposing new limits on Georgia’s water consumption might not lead to more water for its neighbor.

The filing said it is possible to design a consumption cap that would provide Florida with more water, but that it would require a delicate new round of environmental reviews and hearings for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to “adjust its operations to the extent permissible under law” that’s consistent with congressional guidelines.

The Justice Department was careful not to pick sides in the decades-long fight. But the state’s boosters see Tuesday’s filing as a blow to Florida’s request that the U.S. Supreme Court reverse a special master’s recommendation to reject strict new water consumption limits that could have hobbled the Georgia’s economy.

July 27, 2017 - This isn't any ordinary microscopic organism. It's a tardigrade—the most 'indestructible' animal on Earth. Also called water bears, tardigrades can survive up to 30 years without food, live in volcanoes, and endure the vacuum of space. Researchers say they could even survive an asteroid impact like the one that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Only the eventual death of the sun may be enough to wipe out the tardigrades.Click here to read These 'Indestructible' Animals Would Survive a Planet-Wide Apocalypse.

Summer in Arizona and throughout the Southwest is monsoon season, which means a daily pattern of afternoon thunderstorms, flash floods, dramatic dust clouds and spectacular displays of lightning over the desert.

As the climate changes, Arizona’s monsoon rainfall is becoming more intense even as daily average rainfall in parts of the state has decreased, according to a new study. Increasingly, extreme storms threaten the region with more severe floods and giant dust storms called haboobs.

Every summer, rivers of moisture in the lower troposphere — the monsoonal flow — stream into the Southwest from the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of California. Nearly every day in midsummer, the sun heats the mountains and the deserts, creating convection. The rising warm air allows thunderclouds to build during the day before exploding into dramatic electrical storms in the afternoon and evening.

At the end of 'An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power', the audience is asked to take the pledge to #BeInconvenient—to keep demanding schools, businesses and towns invest in clean, renewable energy. “If President Trump refuses to lead, Americans will,” the call to action reads, encouraging viewers who want to fight climate change to use “your choice, your voice, your vote.”

Feel-good cheers in the audience abounded, but in my seat, I was seething over the truth that was conveniently omitted from the new sequel to An Inconvenient Truth: that the most significant thing we as ordinary individuals can do every day to fight climate change is to adopt a plant-based diet. Al Gore himself went vegan in 2014, but aside from a split-second where he mentions that “agriculture is another major cause” of CO2 emissions, the subject is entirely left out of the film.

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